Mail Archives: opendos/2002/08/20/21:02:31
OK, thanks for that explanation, Ben.
Joe.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ben A L Jemmett [SMTP:ben DOT jemmett AT ukonline DOT co DOT uk]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 9:02 PM
> To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
> Subject: Re: members-only option?
>
> > I don't quite understand the purpose of the "members" list, however.
>
> It's a fairly common situation that some people find themselves in; they
> subscribe to a mailing list as bob AT someisp DOT invalid DOT com but want to post
> from
> fred AT otherisp DOT invalid DOT org for whatever reason (perhaps they have multiple
> mailboxes and use one for each list, but all mail comes from a main
> address).
>
> Most of the time, this means that they have to sign-up to a
> subscribers-only
> list with the address on their outgoing mail; if they want to receive the
> mail somewhere else, they now get two copies of each message.
> Yahoo!Groups
> has a facility for adding 'alias' addresses, which are addresses
> associated
> with you that you can post from, but get no mail to. DJ's solution means
> that you can sign up to the 'members' list, which means you can post to
> any
> of the other lists. Then you can sign up to, say, this one, and get mail
> from here sent to a different address.
>
> Regards,
> Ben A L Jemmett.
> (http://web.ukonline.co.uk/ben.jemmett/, http://www.deltasoft.com/)
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